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<blockquote data-quote="Retreater" data-source="post: 8020238" data-attributes="member: 42040"><p>(Speaking when I get to be a player, which happens rarely.) Yeah. I guess most of my characters are white males, same as me on the surface, but different in many other ways. The settings I have typically played in assume a white default, generic Eurocentric fantasy. I have played aliens and droids in Star Wars, a mutant vulture in TMNT, but in most fantasy games (D&D/PF/etc), it's the white default that has been around for decades. One outlier I had was a teenager of East Indian decent in Shadowrun. However, even if the setting was in another culture, I would probably play a white guy. </p><p>Why a "guy?" Because if you're a female character, my experience is that someone is going to hit on you. I don't want to roleplay that with a DM (or other player). It's not right, and I don't do it in my games when I DM, but I just don't want to put up with that crap. I'm here to adventure, not to find romance. If I had a female character, she would be similarly focused on the mission, not getting free drinks at bars. (This has been a near 100% occurrence in every game I've played in that had female PCs.)</p><p>Why "white?" I don't want to risk being offensive. As someone who has done a lot of community theatre, I would never dream of playing Othello (or any other PoC character.) It's not my place to pretend to be another human ethnicity. I will do it for NPCs for limited times, as a novelist might try to write a black character, but I don't want to perform another ethnicity.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Retreater, post: 8020238, member: 42040"] (Speaking when I get to be a player, which happens rarely.) Yeah. I guess most of my characters are white males, same as me on the surface, but different in many other ways. The settings I have typically played in assume a white default, generic Eurocentric fantasy. I have played aliens and droids in Star Wars, a mutant vulture in TMNT, but in most fantasy games (D&D/PF/etc), it's the white default that has been around for decades. One outlier I had was a teenager of East Indian decent in Shadowrun. However, even if the setting was in another culture, I would probably play a white guy. Why a "guy?" Because if you're a female character, my experience is that someone is going to hit on you. I don't want to roleplay that with a DM (or other player). It's not right, and I don't do it in my games when I DM, but I just don't want to put up with that crap. I'm here to adventure, not to find romance. If I had a female character, she would be similarly focused on the mission, not getting free drinks at bars. (This has been a near 100% occurrence in every game I've played in that had female PCs.) Why "white?" I don't want to risk being offensive. As someone who has done a lot of community theatre, I would never dream of playing Othello (or any other PoC character.) It's not my place to pretend to be another human ethnicity. I will do it for NPCs for limited times, as a novelist might try to write a black character, but I don't want to perform another ethnicity. [/QUOTE]
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